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89 pages of results. 331. Egyptian Monumental Evidence [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of earlier literary sources that are far more complete and internally consistent than the late epitomes of Manetho. Examples: a). Based on Herodotus, all Egyptian pyramids and thus any ancient Egyptians associated with them, would have to date some time between c.1350 BC and the early 6th century BC. b). Censorinus was a Roman historian of the 3rd century AD who has provided a great deal of chronological material that has proved reliable concerning Greece and Rome in his essay Di Die Natale'. Egyptologists have used Censorinus to support the concept that the Egyptians had a Sothic cycle' and as the source of the 138 AD date from which they claim to be able ...
332. Response to Critique by Leroy Ellenberger [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... 1940's to the 1970's, spent thousands of hours in some of the largest east-coast libraries researching ancient literature on the subject. He found an interesting variety of 360-day calendars. The Maya calendar, for example, had 72 five-week divisions. Another, the Chinese, had 24 fifteen-day divisions. The Persians had two 180-day apertures. The very early Roman calendar, a heritage of the Etruscans, had 10 months only, each being 36 days. This is why our last month is still named December, preceded by November and October, for ten, nine, and eight. In the Middle East a 12-month calendar (30 days per month and no intercalary periods) was especially widespread ...
333. EBLA -- A New Look at History (Review) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , chronology and history. With regards to language Eblaite can now, after fifteen years of intensive investigation, be classified as neither East nor West Semitic, but rather as Old Semitic. Its only connection with Biblical Hebrew is that it is Semitic. By way of general analogy the relationship between Eblaite and Hebrew is akin to Latin of the Roman period and modern Italian. As for geography there are two intriguing elements: the location of Ebla before its certain attribution with Tell Mardikh and its relationship with many place names cited in its archives. It is highly instructive for those who practise the "art" of historical geography, (i .e . locating ancient sites) to ...
334. Saturn And Voyager [Journals] [Kronos]
... (Spring 1981) Home | Issue Contents Saturn And Voyager Earl R. Milton The ancients write of a "sun" of the night sky which hovered over the top-of-the-world. It was taken to be a manifestation of the great god. Some worshipped him as Shamash, others knew him as Atum. The Greeks called him Kronos, the Romans Saturn. Today, his worldly-image is but a dim yellow starry point in the sky- the ringed planet we call Saturn. It orbits the Sun every twenty-nine and one-half years. The most distant of the planets visible to the naked eye, Saturn is about one and one-half billion kilometres from the Earth; and its diameter is nearly ...
335. Ankylosis in the Chronology of Reconstructed History? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of Assyrian and Babylonian Chronology"(1 ), I took the opportunity to look at the fact that most of the chronologies around the Mars catastrophes have been linked to the date of 15th. June, -763, the day of a solar eclipse mentioned in the Eponym Lists (2 ). These again have been linked to Greek and Roman chronology by way of the Ptolemaic Canon of Babylonian kings, "the correctness of which is proved by the lunar eclipses mentioned in the Almagest" (3 ), and through the Babylonian King List A with three rulers being kings of Babylon and Assyria at the same time. Three lunar eclipses are given for the years -721 and -720 ...
336. An Ancient Latin Name for Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VI No. 2 (Winter 1981) Home | Issue Contents An Ancient Latin Name for Venus Jan N. Sammer Venus, in its aspect as the Morning Star, was known to the early Romans as Iubar; not until much later did Lucifer, "the bringer of light", replace Iubar as the designation of the planet Venus in its morning aspect.(l ) Latin writers derived Iubar from the word iuba, meaning "hair". Varro wrote: eadem stella vocatur iubar quod iubata- "this star is called iubar because it is hairy".(2 ) Varro and Festus compared the Morning Star's hair to a lion's ...
337. The Mark Of The Beast [Journals] [Kronos]
... Mark Of The Beast Milo Kearney In John's Book of Revelation, the Bible reader is presented with a riddle too elusive to be pinned down and too intriguing to be left alone. A complex of images drawn from the prophecies of Daniel, combined with later symbols of a perplexing nature, its most apparent references are to the world of the Roman Empire.(1 ) Since Jesus did not return to fulfill these obscure predictions in that period, Christians down through the ages have contrived various ingenious schemes in attempts to fathom Revelation in terms of their own times. The long trail of these abandoned interpretations is an interesting one in itself, winding through the explanations of such scholars as ...
338. Cuneiform Astronomical Records and Celestial Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... In any case, Kugler was more clearminded on the theoretical aspects of the problem than Lowery has proved to be. The latter regrets that at the end of his presentation Kugler took a stand against catastrophism; ' that is, he dismissed as without historical significance all those passages of Greek philosophers, from Plato in his late writings to the Roman Stoics, in which mention is made of universal destructions by fire and flood, despite the fact that these passages take some elements from the myth of Phaeton. Kugler was scientifically correct, but in a peculiar sense : these ancient writers failed to see the episode of Phaeton as a unique event. This group of philosophers was fathering modern ...
339. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... dust into the atmosphere that it caused a world wide catastrophic climatic event which resulted in mass displacement of peoples, the spread of the Black Death and the European Dark Ages. Keys noted that dendrochronologist Mike Baillie had found a major disturbance of tree rings in the 6th century, which indicated frost damage even in summer. This ties in with Roman accounts from Constantinople of bizarre weather around 535/536, a Japanese food shortage in 540 and Chinese records. Greenland ice cores appear to indicate a massive eruption at that time, and Keys traces it to Krakatoa in the Sunda Straits. On the Mongolian Steppes the increased cold made the horse-based economy difficult so vast waves of barbarians' ...
340. The Mammoths' Demise - a correct solution requires more facts [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the tundra of Northern Russia and Siberia has produced many explanations from professionals and amateurs. The purpose of this paper is to introduce new facts into the debate. The most convincing argument against Lyell's uniformitarianism, which has had a controlling influence on nearly all geological explanations, comes not from his contemporaries but from the works of the Greek Philosophers and Roman poets. This evidence was cited by Thomas Burnet in his argument in support of the Mosaic chronology [1 ]. They say, The Poles of the World did once change their situation, and were at first in another posture from what they are now, till that inclination happen'd; This the Ancient Philosophers often made mention of, ...
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